September

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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

September

 

the ninth month of the calendar year. It is 30 days long. In ancient Rome and Old Rus’, September initially was the seventh month of the year. It was the first month of the year in the Russian state from the 15th to the 18th century.

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References in classic literature ?
The ceremony took place on the 25th of September. A basket of honor took down the president, J.
On the 19th of September, they rose at early dawn; some began to prepare breakfast, and others to arrange the packs preparatory to a march.
At length, on the 19th of September, he reached the upper waters of Salmon River.
After this, he proceeded down the river, about five miles below the forks, when he came to a halt on the 26th of September, to establish his winter quarters.
She had lain there utterly helpless, from illness, until the beginning of September. She had been advertised, without result, in the Glasgow newspapers.
Arnold would in all probability receive the telegram at Baden, on the next day, September the seventeenth.
Between the seventeenth and the twentieth of September Geoffrey Delamayn had left Swanhaven, on the way to his new training quarters in the neighborhood in which the Foot-Race at Fulham was to be run.
Norris could tolerate its being for Fanny's use; and had Lady Bertram ever thought about her own objection again, he might have been excused in her eyes for not waiting till Sir Thomas's return in September, for when September came Sir Thomas was still abroad, and without any near prospect of finishing his business.
That night (September 9, 1916), they made camp a short distance from the cliffs beside one of the numerous cool springs that are to be found within Caspak, oftentimes close beside the still more numerous warm and hot springs which feed the many pools.
On September twelfth the party scaled a line of sandstone cliffs which crossed their route toward the south; but they crossed them only after an encounter with the tribe that inhabited the numerous caves which pitted the face of the escarpment.